SOURCE: “Biography and the Objective Fallacy: Pater's Experiment in ‘A Prince of Court Painters,’” in Biography, Vol. 16, No. 2, Spring, 1993, pp. 147-60.
In the following essay, Candido describes Pater's portrait of Jean-Antoine Watteau as radically incorporating multiple layers of perspective. Candido also discusses Pater's inclusion of himself as “editor” in order to demonstrate the impossibility of objective biography.
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